Posts Tagged: Beer Art, Language and Writing
Pounding Them Back Post-War Style
Posted by on Saturday, October 10, 2009 in - 4 comments
Jay has posted a good post. A very good post this week about a series of ads placed in post-WWII American magazines by the United States Brewers Foundation from 1945-1946. On first glance they are cheery and positive, warm and inviting, family friendly. The kind of thing that rarely gets trotted …
Warning: Your Freebie Beer Blogging Ways Are Over!
Posted by on Monday, October 5, 2009 in - 4 comments
A few weeks ago, a wiggling waggy hand rose above the crowd pointing out that there was uncertainty as to who was dabbling in beer blogging in relation to matters in which the blogger had a financial interest. Melissa Cole admitted that there were doubts even about her own writing and that it was …
So Who Really Should Be Writing About Beer?
Posted by on Sunday, August 16, 2009 in - 10 comments
Stan linked via Twitter via Maureen to one of the oddest bits of beer writing I have ever come across in my years of doing this. It is by a Western Massachusetts based writer George Lenker, who apparently has had a beer column for about as long as I have written this beer blog. Looking at some of …
"Odour That Is Instinctively Repellent To Women"?
Posted by on Wednesday, July 29, 2009 in - 3 comments
It is good to be a fan of good beer and promote it and all but we still do say silly things some times as this article about a conversation with British beer writer Melissa Cole illustrates: • ...we start with a bottle of Coney Island, by an American brewer called Schmaltz (which also makes …
Review: TAPS Magazine, Summer 2009 Issue
Posted by on Sunday, July 26, 2009 in - 1 comment
Last January, I reviewed the winter issue of Canada's beer quarterly, TAPS magazine. I had some advice and, happily, little complaint but after Troy like any good worker beer announced the next incarnation I thought I should have another look. • TAPS is advancing by leaps as bounds with every …
Review: TAPS Magazine, Winter 2008/09 Issue
Posted by on Saturday, January 3, 2009 in - 3 comments
I picked up a copy of the latest issue of TAPS magazine, a photo contest prize giver, this morning while we were out at Chapters. Well worth the $6.95 I paid and, frankly, so well worth it I thought I would write a post setting out why. This may seem an obvious motivation for a blogger on a …
A New Way To Make Some Beer Blogging Money
Posted by on Monday, November 10, 2008 in - 4 comments
Those pals of mine at silverorange, the good folk who run the hickory fired servers upon which A Good Beer Blog runs, have come up with a new idea - a group web gallery called ClusterShot which also allows you to sell licenses for the use of your photos. I know one thing about beer bloggers. We …
Evan And Stan On The State Of Italian Craft Beer
Posted by on Saturday, November 1, 2008 in - leave a comment
There is a great article on Italian craft beer in The New York Times today by our friend and co-author around here by times, Evan Rail in which Stan makes an appearance as part of the Hieronymi's global search for great beer. The accompanying photo by Dave Yoder, copied above, is a study of how to …
Getting Your Beer On The Cheap In NYC
Posted by on Thursday, September 25, 2008 in - 1 comment
This photo essay on hunting for ten buck-a-beer beers through the bars and stores of New York is just fun.
Ron On The Belgian Coast
Posted by on Thursday, July 31, 2008 in - 2 comments
I have no idea why I think this is one of the best beer blog posts ever written but it is one of the best beer blog posts ever written.
